Combined cultivator and drill



July 7, 1925. 1544,681

J. H. REICHELT COMBINED CULTIVATOR AND DRILL 2 Sheets-Sheet l Filed March '7, 1922 'July 7, 1925.

J. H. REICHELT COMBINED CULTIVATOR AND DRILL Filed March .7, 1922 Fgiy 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented July 7, 1925.

' JOHANN HEINRICH REICHELT, OF LORQUON, STIA NHILL,'VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.

1 comnnmn 'cumrva'ron Ann DRILL.

r Appllcatlonfiled March 7,

To all whom .it may concern:

Be it known that JOHANN HEINRICH REioHEL'r, a citizen of the Commonwealth of Australia, and resident of Lorquon, via Nhill, in the State of Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia, has. invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Combined Cultivators and Drills, of which the following is a specification.

- This invention relates to 'combined cultivatorsandseed and fertilizer drills,;and has been devised in order to provide mechanism of greater utility than that at present in use.

The invention is specially applicable to implements the stump jump mechanism of which is connected to and operates,agains t the draft of the machine.

The invention is further characterized by the following features p 1. A float frame suspended below the drill in the formation of a honeycomb the hoes. 'carrying the .tines being mounted at the points where the angles of the fhoneycomb frame meet and the hoes are; arranged in a plurality of rows the adjacent parallelside edges of the honeycomb sections being suflicientlyv wide to allow of stump, jump connecting devices to' operate therein or pass therethrough.

2. A. hoe supporting float frame with the stump jump connecting devices and supported by transverse angle iron beamsflwith or without longitudinal bars in pairs and spaced from each other to provide guide members for the stump jump connections.

The interconnecting mechanism between the hoe and the chains connecting the draft of the machine, which is characterized inthat theparts are detachable and renewable and that each draft connection is above the float frame. I

In order that the invention may be more readily understood it will now be described ingsin which u I Figure 1 is diagrammatic View in plan of one form of float frame and draft connections therefor.

Figure 2 is a'view in side elevation of-one form of stump jumping connections;

Figure 3is a view in plan of Figure 2. Figure 1-.is a view in side elevation-and Figure 5 is a view in frontelevation of the hoe supporting bracket.

' Figure 6 are views of the link connecting box at both ends by anysuitableg neans.

line but out of horizontal line with each 1922. Serial No. 541,803.

the draft chains and. the bracket supporting said link.

Figure 7 is aview in plan ofthe extendmg hoe arm.

Figure 8 is a view in planet the hoe supstruction of stump jump connections lie-' tween the hoe and draft.

Flgures 11 and 12 are views in side elevation and end elevation of a modified construction of the hoe supporting brackets.

'. Figure 13 is a view in plan of guide bars 79 for the stump jump mechanism and Figure 14 IS a view in side elevation partly in section of a further modification of stump ump mechanism.

According to this invention the usual wheeled main frame and seed and jertilizer drilhng mechanism is provided. TA single float frame 1 is suspended below the drill This float frame 1 is of honeycomb rows of hoe supporting members 2 in honey comb formation, with the parallel adjacent walls 3 spaced from each other to allow mechanismto. operate therebetweeii.

This honeycomb float frame 1 is prefer-- 'ablydispos'ed so. that it will support a plurality of rows of-hoes in transverse parallel other. I i

The hoes l" are supported immediately at the rear of each pair of parallel adjacent side members 3 of the honeycomb sections, that is, where the diagonal ends curve away from each other as at 5 towards the next adj acent parallel surfaces on either side.

The hoes 4 are not mounted in parallel horizontal line, that is, in the line of travel only 'one end or apex of each honeycomb section IS in the centre of the honeycomb the other end or apex being arranged on one sideto the front or rear, between the said hoeconnection and the next one on that particular side, thus thehoes 4t are mounted in trans-I verse parallel lines a, b, a, d but the distance N5 of each'furrow apart in horizontalline so that a single hoe'forms each furrow.

The hoes 4 are mounted to the float frame 1 by a specially constructed bracket. This bracket at the lop where it connects the float con- 85 struction that is to say, of a. plurality of frame at the intersections 5 of each honeycomb section 2 is Y shaped as at at; to conform to the curve, the leg 7 of the Y bracket enters between the parallel sides 3 of the sec,- tions 2 and is bolted thereto as at 8 while the diverging arms 6 of the Y portion follow respective diagonal arms!) of the main frame 1 and are secured thereto by set screws 10.

Cast with and below the said Y portion 6 is the centrally grooved supporting member 11 grooved at 12 and forming the supporting member of the hoe arm 13 the hoe 4 being fitted with a cultivator share or tooth 14 at its lower end and receiving the conduits fromthe seed" and fertilizer box in the usual way.

Thesehoe arnis 13 extend horizontally forwardly and then downwardly as at 15 a short distance and immediately near the forward top edge the hoe is formed on either side'with studs 16 which are received and held in holes 18 partially formed in the member 11'. and partially formed in the -ll'ltl-tlfig piece or block 17 so as to providea pivot at that point.

This construction allows for the free movement to the hoe'4 and its'arm 13 in the stump jumping operation.

The grooving of the hoe supporting member as at 12 on the underside also forms a guide for the hoe arm 13 the forward and bent end 15 of which at the lower end pivot ally connects at 20 a link 21 which. extends slightly diagonally to approximately the centre and is pivoted at 22 in a recess 23 of a diagonally disposed arm 24the upper end of which is notched at 25 to receive the chai s 26 from. the draft appliances.

This contruction is thus characterized in that the draft connection at 25 is above the float frame thus forming a further essential characteristic embodied :in, the .invent-ion.

The link 21 where it connects the draft connecting arm 24 preferably passes between the parallel sides 3 of the respective and around horizontally disposed rollers 32 fitted to the draft swingle trees, the chain or flexible connection extending rearwardly from the roller above the float frame to the draft arm 24 of the hoe next in horizontal line, thus each flexible draft connection ner described.

engages two stump jump arms 24 except the connections engaging each end of the swingle tree. v

As illustrated in Figure 8 the supporting bracket 6, 11 may be formed in two halves centrally divided at 33. v

In the modification illustrated in Figure 9 the frame may be rectangular in shape being formed of four transversely spaced angle beams 34 with a. front beam 35 and side bars 36.

The hoe and jump supports are mounted between'and to spaced bars 37 arranged in pairs between each pair of beams 34 and provided with angle ends 38 by means of which they are bolted to the beams 34.

The hoes 39 are provided with forwardly extending arms 13 formed with a downwardly extending member 41.

Each hoe arm 13- is pivoted at 42 between' depending lugs 43 of a bracket 44 in the shape of an'inverted T provided with a vertical member 45 by means of which it is bolted to one of the angle beams 34.

The lugs 43 form a guide for the hoe arm '40 and to the lower end of the hoe arm extension 41 is pivoted a link 21 in the"man If desired and as illustrated in Figure 14 the ba-rs37 may be dispensed with, the lower end of the draft arm 25 being pivoted at 49 between lugs 53'extending from a bracket 54 formed with an angle member 55 by means of which the said bracket is bolted to its beam 34.

The lugs 43 of the bracket 44 may be formed with a diagonal slot 56 to allow'the studs 16 of the hoe arm 4 to detachably seat therein and at the same time form the a pivot point for the hog, while the lower end of the extension 41 of the hoe arm may also be formed with a diagonal slot 57 so as to.

allow of the pivoting detaching of the link 46 therefrom.

\Vhat I claim'as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:-

11bit as well as the ready Apparatus of the class described, comprising, a frame formed of connected, matching polygonally shaped, members, each member having certain of'its sides independent from and parallel with the sides of adjacent.-

men'ibers, and spaced therefrom, the spaced positioned in staggered parallel sides being relation, a-hoe mounted adjacent each pair of parallel s1des, and hoe stump jump mechanlsm mounted between each pair of parallel sides operatively connected with the hoe.

S1gned at lVIelbourne, Victoria, Australia, this. 13th day of January 1922.

JOHANN HEINRICH REICHEIQT.

In the presence of w binxnr Himmler, JEANNE BoUsLmRE. 

